North, South and Central Colon?
May 20, 2009 - 9:28 am
Well it’s a good thing that Cristobal Colon died without knowing he discovered the New World. Can you imagine having our wonderful continent named after him? These are the types of issues that come up when you study history with the kids.
And who is Christopher Columbus anyway? How do you go from Cristobal to Christopher? From Colon to Colombus? Who has the authority to add a “bus” to the explorer’s name? What came first: the naming of the large intestine or the Captain who asked Fernando and Isabel de Espana to finance his crazy idea of sailing through the Sea of Darkness to get to the yummy spices?
Leave it to the Spanish to go to such lengths for better tasting food!